Leicester City transfer news: Musa is still target for Championship club

Ahmed Musa during a Leicester City training session at Belvoir Drive. (Photo by Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images)

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Leicester City’s Ahmed Musa has admitted that he is still a transfer target for Championship side Hull.

The Nigerian international was a deadline day target for the Tigers in August, but the player turned down the move at the last minute.

But 25-year-old Musa said, in an interview with a Russian journalist, that he was still in regular contact with Hull’s manager Leonid Slutsky, who was his boss at former club CSKA Moscow.

Musa, who signed for City for £16million in the summer of 2016, said: “Slutsky for me is a father. We are always in touch, we communicate warmly. This coach has always helped me to feel confident, to believe in my strength.

Ahmed Musa at Bramall Lane ahead of the Carabao Cup Second Round tie against Sheffield United (Photo by Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images)

“And he really wants me at his place. I just cannot physically tell him ‘no’. Perhaps in the near future again I will play for his team.”

But Musa admits that the problem of dropping down a league is still an issue, especially after Hull’s start to the season leaving them 20th in the Championship.

He said of playing in the Championship: “That is the problem. It is for this reason that it's hard for me to decide.”